Quotes about Resilience

Not because his troubles were one whit less heavy and bitter to him than a man's are to a man, but because a new and powerful interest bore them down and drove them out of his mind for the time—just as men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises.

Just at this juncture the boy felt a slow, fateful grip closing on his ear, and a steady lifting impulse. In that vise he was borne across the house and deposited in his own seat, under a peppering fire of giggles from the whole school. Then the master stood over him during a few awful moments, and finally moved away to his throne without saying a word. But although Tom's ear tingled, his heart was jubilant.

He felt much as a man might who had danced blithely out to enjoy a rainbow, and got struck by lightning.

Not a reproach passed her lips. She was too great for that - she was Joan of Arc; and when that is said, all is said.

Put on all the armor of the Lord. Not just the pretty stuff.

The road to medical school started with a job mowing lawns I was far from sure I could handle.

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, cruelly mocked, but it an never be taken away unless it is surrendered.

The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it

This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were commonly found on the wall in the homes of devout persons need to be etched on our hearts: Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.